Knowledge Management

• Peer Assist: how it went

  Blogs, Knowledge Management, Learning to Innovate Blog, Monitoring and Evaluation October 1, 2011 at 17:34 0 comments

  By Boru Douthwaite (June 2011) The CPWF held its first ‘Peer Assist’ evaluation BDC projects and programs on 7th and 8th June, in the beautiful Lauret, near Montpellier.  Present were the three Basin Leaders from the Andes, Mekong and Nile, the CPMT and the KM team.  We spent a half [...]

   

• GIZ Conference on Systemic Approaches to Evaluation

  Blogs, Knowledge Management, Learning to Innovate Blog, Monitoring and Evaluation October 1, 2011 at 17:30 0 comments

  “The best method to evaluate is an appropriate approach to diverse conditions” Michaela Zintl, Head of  Division for Evaluation of Development Cooperation, BMZ GIZ hosted a conference on “Systemic Approaches in Evaluation” during January 2011, according to Michael Gajo, Senior Evaluation Officer at GTZ and convener, “to learn from experience [...]

   

• Convergence Where I didnt expect it

  Blogs, Knowledge Management, Learning to Innovate Blog, Monitoring and Evaluation October 1, 2011 at 17:24 0 comments

  by Boru Douthwaite Last week I attended the IRRI-organized workshop to develop an M&E plan for the GRISP CRP.  I began the meeting fully expecting there to be a big difference with GRISP M&E compared to CPWF M&E.  I was very happily surprised.  In short the GRISP M&E proposal mirrors [...]

   

• Outcome Logic Models: What They Are and How to Use Them

  Blogs, Knowledge Management, Learning to Innovate Blog, Monitoring and Evaluation October 1, 2011 at 17:19 0 comments

  For the past few weeks, some of us at the M&E Team and friends have been having a discussion on OLMs, and their use in CPWF M&E. Here are some of the ideas we have gathered. We hope that far from finalizing the discussion, this brief recount generates new issues, [...]

   

• The Future of Farming in a Globalized World

  Andes, Blogs, Knowledge Management, Water and Food Blog October 1, 2011 at 16:56 1 comment

  Javier Ekboir is the Coordinator of the Institutional Learning and Change Initiative (ILAC). ILAC is looking at how CPWF is conducting research for development and what lessons can be learned for the new Consortium Research Programs. Javier accompanied the CONDESAN team on a field trip to the Cañete River Basin [...]